The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-16
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

Mrs. Polk, widow of James K. Polk,
still resides in the old homestead at
Nashville. She is over eighty years Of
age, but is in good health, and possesses
memory Of unimpaired vigor.
"A movement is on foot in England
to obtain for Miss Jean Ingelow one OF
the annuities in the gift of the Grown
awarded for the service of literature.
Miss Ingelow was born in 1885.
Private advices from London state
that Martin F. Topper is almost entirely
broken down in health. He can neither
read, write, nor speak intelligibly, though
his mind is clear. He will be seventy
seven next July.
Prof. Max Muller, judged by his
titles, is probably the most distinguished
man in England to day. He has moro
than forty honorary euffixes to his name,
but he does not use all of them in his
ordinary correspondence.
Among the large staff OF editors en-
ployed on the new dictionary in prepara-
ton by the Century Co., of New York,
Austin Abbott, Esq, is in charge OF the
department of law, and his brother. Rev.
DR.. Lyman Abbott, of theology.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks continues
to be burdened with letters asking for
money and from parents requesting re-
membranes for their children, who, per-
haps, have been named in honor of the
distinguished dead, while some seek an
article that he may have worn, or some OF
his manuscripts. Such are the penalties
OF fame.
Benjamin Richardson is one OF the
eccentric rich men of New York. He is
said to be worth 100000 or more, but
lives in small tumble-down house in
Harlem. He owns the historic Washing
ton coach, which he let's out whenever
there is demand for that revolutionary
relic. Doubtless he makes the old coach
pay we'll for its keeping.
President Cleveland has sister,
Mrs. Hastings, the eldest of the family,
who has been for more than thirty years
valued missionary OF the American
Board at Ceylon. Her husband is Pres
ident of the Jaffna Mission College.
Five or six years ago, at the death Of her
mother, Mrs. Hastings came home for
few months, but the elevation of her
brother to the Presidency has had no
power to attract her even temporarily
from the endeared work of her life.
-Four of her children are in this country,
and the remaining two, after being edu-
Gated here by her brothers help, have
returned to missionary ground, the son
to follow bis fathers calling.
Cardinal John Henry Newman (now
in his eighty-seventh year, has, it is
thought, little time to live. Although
free from actual disease, he is frail and
liable on any day to pass from earth.
His life in the oratory at Egbaston ca
part Of Birmingham, England, is as
regular and as devoted to ecclesiastical
duties as the youngest and freshest of the
brethren. He requires at least fourteen
hours sleep out of the twenty-four, and
sees no visitors save few with whom he
is in special accord. He rises at seven,
breakfasts lightly on tea and bread with
occasionally little fruit, and seldom
tastes meat. In his reading the Cardinal
is very fond OF works on natural history,
and his poetical favorites are Words
worth, Faber, Coventry Patmore, Keble.
The Rev. s. II. Williams, who died
recently at his residence in MoerR, N. Y,
was remarkable as the last OF hitherto
unbroken line of six generations of mir
listers in this country, which covered a
period Of about 204 years. The follow
ing were the American members of the
list, with the date of graduation The
Rev. W. H., 1858, Harvard; the Rev.
Solomon, 17l9, Harvard; the Rev. Eli
pbalet, 1873, Yale; the Rev. Solomon,
ITO, Yale; the Rev. Solomon graduation
not stated, who preached in Addison,
Vt; and the late deceased, who was born
in Vermont in 1907 ordained by the
Champlain Presbytery in 184E, and
preached in different churches in Clinton
and Franklin counties, New York. The
Williams family we're Welsh. Their coat
Of arms is white lion on sable shield,
with a motto meaning, "What God
willeth will be-"
WHEN asked how many great writ
ers there were in the age of Louis XIV,
Boileau answered. 81 know only three
Corneille, Moliere and myself."